School district policies and practices have not kept pace with student and teacher needs.
The first thing I started collecting was stamps. Until I started discovering girls. That was the end of stamps.
I never stay anywhere — parties , museums, meetings — longer than 3 hours.
Charity is just writing checks and not being engaged. Philanthropy, to me, is being engaged, not only with your resources but getting people and yourself really involved and doing things that haven't been done before.
Any city in America would like to get a museum built if they didn't have to pay for it.
Managers are responsible for setting workplace policies under which teachers can succeed. Managers are responsible for negotiating contracts that create the conditions under which teachers can succeed.